A slice of the Pacific Islands during winter
Max explains to us his research stay at the University of Australia (Sydney), and his collaboration with James Flexner, a specialist in colonial archeology in Oceania and the Pacific Islands.
Beyond Murdock: Moving Fast Enough to Matter, Carefully Enough to Count
Source code must survive before it can be used as a historical source, yet code has not traditionally been treated as something worth preserving. In practice, it runs, gets overwritten, deleted, lost to hardware failures, or simply neglected. That is why the question of whether code deserves preservation is not purely technical: it is historical and political, as is the question of who bears responsibility for ensuring that preservation.
The Source Code Exhibition
Source code must survive before it can be used as a historical source, yet code has not traditionally been treated as something worth preserving. In practice, it runs, gets overwritten, deleted, lost to hardware failures, or simply neglected. That is why the question of whether code deserves preservation is not purely technical: it is historical and political, as is the question of who bears responsibility for ensuring that preservation.